Bug 322363 - [pretty printers] Support for varobjs changing type and/or name
Summary: [pretty printers] Support for varobjs changing type and/or name
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: CDT
Classification: Tools
Component: cdt-debug-dsf-gdb (show other bugs)
Version: 8.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
QA Contact: Jonah Graham CLA
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Depends on: 302121
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Reported: 2010-08-11 10:16 EDT by Jens Elmenthaler CLA
Modified: 2020-09-04 15:18 EDT (History)
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Description Jens Elmenthaler CLA 2010-08-11 10:16:20 EDT 
Build Identifier: CDt 8.0

Currently, changing the type/name/display hint of a varobj does not
work well with the gdb. However, with pretty printers, there are scenarios where this could make sense (not very likely right now, that's why a nice to have).

There are two junit test cases that are prepared to handle those cases:
PrettyPrintingTests.testUpdatingTypeName
PrettyPrintingTests.testDisplayHintChange

These tests fail with current gdb's. Looking at the reason, it seems that the gdb folk did not have such a scenario in mind. So it's also not supported by the current implementation of DSF GDB.

Turning this feature one, would have to start with bugzilla entries for gdb.

Reproducible: Always